Example sentences of "it for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Why do we take it for granted that education is a good to which everyone equally is entitled ? |
| 62 | Until recently , they took it for granted that their supplies from domestic sources could be obtained on credit and that , when these bills matured , any shortage of funds would be made good by the banks . |
| 63 | The reality surprised me at first , and then like everyone else , I took it for granted . |
| 64 | Learning from experience is such a fundamental process that it is easy to take it for granted and assume that having experiences and learning from them are synonymous . |
| 65 | ‘ I used to see and feel things in the house , but being a child I just took it for granted that everybody else was seeing and feeling the same things . |
| 66 | Barney took it for granted Yanto would have a cup , and made a signal to his wife through the kitchen window . |
| 67 | People who do n't put on weight take it for granted that the rest of us are greedy and lacking in will power . |
| 68 | ‘ I would n't mind , ’ she explained , ‘ but they just took it for granted that she would go back to work and I would look after the baby , without even asking me . ’ |
| 69 | A young wife may assume that her husband will come shopping with her and he may take it for granted that she will stay at home while he goes to the local football match , or plays golf with the boys . |
| 70 | I took it for granted that I could associate with people from all walks of life , from every background . |
| 71 | Jack had gone to India soon afterwards , and although Susan wore no ring they were definitely engaged , and everyone took it for granted that they would marry as soon as circumstances would permit . |
| 72 | Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative , and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated . |
| 73 | And Italians seem to have the most matter-of-fact attitude to drinking wine ; they take it for granted , just like the bread and salt on the table . |
| 74 | He took it for granted that people would fall in love with Eva . |
| 75 | She took it for granted that each knew who the other was , and standing aside to motion him in she said : ‘ It 's good of you to be so accommodating , Mr Dalgliesh . |
| 76 | She was taking it for granted that he knew who she was ; but then anyone who had read the papers must know that . |
| 77 | I 'd rather taken it for granted that she 'd come to London with me . |
| 78 | Some families take it for granted that the elderly are the natural responsibility of the unattached , but this is not so . |
| 79 | ‘ There was such an incredible level of will involved , ’ reflects Rowland , ‘ and we just took it for granted that we were , like , better than everybody else by about 50 million miles . |
| 80 | Let us not take it for granted . |
| 81 | It is easy to think of the doctor , for example , whose father and grandfather were doctors before him and who takes it for granted that his son will follow in his footsteps — without really stopping to consider whether that is what his son wants to do . |
| 82 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 83 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 84 | Ruth saw at once that her grandfather was not in the room , but she took it for granted that by some miracle he had improved enough to get upstairs and was resting in bed . |
| 85 | It 's easy to take it for granted that we take medication to get better but a child does n't necessarily understand that . ’ |
| 86 | But the worst silence of all is when we take it for granted that they know how much they are still appreciated and that the calloused hands or fingers are symbols to us of the love and caring poured into our lives . |
| 87 | Personally , I would go further : employers who took it for granted that this was exactly what they were doing should not be open to fresh claims from the DSS . |
| 88 | Emily willed her daughter to show the right amount of gratitude , she prayed that the girl would n't take it for granted . |
| 89 | We take it for granted that we have light to see by , natural or artificial . |
| 90 | That 's so long ago , hillwalkers now take it for granted ! |